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Bette Davis

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

05/04/1908

Day of Death

06/10/1989
(81) years old

Place of Birth

Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Bette Davis

Biography

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical... Read More

Known For

Faye

Madonna: Madame X

Mike Wallace Is Here

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Always at The Carlyle

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Bette and Joan

Listen to Me Marlon

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Filmography

Cast

2024

Faye

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2024

Faye

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021

Madonna: Madame X

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019

Mike Wallace Is Here

as (archive footage)

2018

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywo...

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Always at The Carlyle

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Bette and Joan

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Listen to Me Marlon

as Self (archive footage)

2014

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2013

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

as Self (archive footage)

2013

Footsteps on the Ceiling

as Margo Channing (archive footage)

2009

The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

as Self (archive footage)

2009

Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis

as Self (archive footage)

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

2007

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in ...

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Jezebel: Legend of the South

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

as Self (archive footage)

2005

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Dese...

as Self (archive footage)

2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

as Queen Elizabeth (archive footage)

2003

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

2002

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of t...

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Bride of Trailer Camp

as (Archival)

2000

Backstory: 'All About Eve'

as Self (archive footage)

1997

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as Self (archive footage)

1997

Frank Capra's American Dream

as Self (archive footage)

1996

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

as Self (archive footage)

1996

Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis

as Self (archive footage)

1994

Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could ...

as Self (archive footage)

1994

All About Bette

as Self

1989

Wicked Stepmother

as Miranda Pierpoint

1989

Hairway to the Stars

as Self [Archive Footage]

1988

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wi...

as Self (archive footage)

1987

The Whales of August

as Libby Strong

1987

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

as (archive footage)

1986

As Summers Die

as Hannah Loftin

1986

Directed by William Wyler

as Self

1986

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archiv...

1986

Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Français...

as Herself

1985

Murder with Mirrors

as Carrie Louise Serrocold

1985

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

as Self (archive footage)

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1983

Right of Way

as Miniature Dwyer

1983

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

as Self

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1982

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "Deception") (archive footage)

1982

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

1982

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

as Esther McDonald Cimino

1982

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)

1981

Family Reunion

as Elizabeth Winfield

1980

Skyward

as Billie Dupree

1980

The Watcher in the Woods

as Mrs. Aylwood

1980

White Mama

as Estelle Malone

1979

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Dau...

as Lucy Mason

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1978

Mickey's 50

as Self

1978

Death on the Nile

as Marie Van Schuyler

1978

Return from Witch Mountain

as Letha Wedge

1976

The Disappearance of Aimee

as Minnie Kennedy

1976

Burnt Offerings

as Aunt Elizabeth

1974

Hello Mother, Goodbye!

1973

Scream, Pretty Peggy

as Mrs. Elliott

1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

as Self (archive footage)

1972

Bette Davis

as Self

1972

The Judge and Jake Wyler

as Judge Meredith

1972

The Scopone Game

as 'A vecchia

1972

Madame Sin

as Madame Sin

1971

Bunny O'Hare

as Bunny O'Hare

1970

Connecting Rooms

as Wanda Fleming

1968

The Anniversary

as Mrs. Taggart

1965

The Nanny

as Nanny

1965

The Decorator

as Liz

1964

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

as Charlotte Hollis

1964

Where Love Has Gone

as Mrs. Gerald Hayden

1964

Dead Ringer

as Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips

1963

The Empty Canvas

as Dino's Mother

1962

The Andy Williams Christmas Show

1962

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

as Baby Jane Hudson

1961

Pocketful of Miracles

as Apple Annie

1959

The Scapegoat

as Countess

1959

John Paul Jones

as Empress Catherine the Great

1956

Storm Center

as Alicia Hull

1956

The Catered Affair

as Mrs. Agnes Hurley

1955

The Virgin Queen

as Queen Elizabeth I

1952

The Star

as Margaret Elliot

1952

Phone Call from a Stranger

as Marie Hoke

1951

Another Man's Poison

as Janet Frobisher

1951

Payment on Demand

as Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)

1950

All About Eve

as Margo Channing

1949

Breakdowns of 1949

as Self

1949

Beyond the Forest

as Rosa Moline

1948

June Bride

as Linda Gilman

1948

Winter Meeting

as Susan Grieve

1946

Deception

as Christine Radcliffe

1946

A Stolen Life

as Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth

1945

The Corn Is Green

as Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat

1944

Breakdowns of 1944

as Self

1944

Hollywood Canteen

as Self

1944

Mr. Skeffington

as Fanny Trellis

1943

A Present with a Future

as Mother

1943

Old Acquaintance

as Kit Marlowe

1943

The Voice That Thrilled the World

as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive foot...

1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars

as Self

1943

Watch on the Rhine

as Sara Müller

1943

Show-Business at War

as Self

1943

Stars on Horseback

1942

Breakdowns of 1942

as Self

1942

Now, Voyager

as Charlotte Vale

1942

In This Our Life

as Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill

1941

The Man Who Came to Dinner

as Maggie Cutler

1941

Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1941

The Little Foxes

as Regina Hubbard Giddens

1941

The Bride Came C.O.D.

as Joan Winfield

1941

Shining Victory

1941

The Great Lie

as Maggie Patterson Van Allen

1940

The Letter

as Leslie Crosbie

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self

1940

All This, and Heaven Too

as Henriette Deluzy-Desportes

1940

If I Forget You

as Bette Davis

1939

Breakdowns of 1939

as Self

1939

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

as Queen Elizabeth

1939

The Old Maid

as Charlotte Lovell

1939

Juarez

as Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg

1939

Dark Victory

as Judith Traherne

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Self (archive footage)

1938

The Sisters

as Louise Elliott Medlin

1938

Jezebel

as Julie Marsden

1937

Breakdowns of 1937

as Self

1937

It's Love I'm After

as Joyce Arden

1937

That Certain Woman

as Mary Donnell/Mme Al Haines

1937

Kid Galahad

as Louise 'Fluff' Phillips

1937

A Day at Santa Anita

as Bette Davis (uncredited)

1937

Marked Woman

as Mary Dwight Strauber

1936

Breakdowns of 1936

as Self

1936

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

as Self

1936

Satan Met a Lady

as Valerie Purvis

1936

The Golden Arrow

as Daisy Appleby

1936

The Petrified Forest

as Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple

1935

A Dream Comes True

1935

Dangerous

as Joyce Heath

1935

Special Agent

as Julie Gardner

1935

Front Page Woman

as Ellen Garfield

1935

The Girl from 10th Avenue

as Miriam A. Brady

1935

Bordertown

as Mrs. Marie Roark

1934

Housewife

as Patricia Berkeley

1934

Of Human Bondage

as Mildred Rogers

1934

Fog Over Frisco

as Arlene Bradford

1934

Jimmy the Gent

as Joan Martin

1934

Fashions of 1934

as Lynn Mason

1934

The Big Shakedown

as Norma Nelson

1933

Bureau of Missing Persons

as Norma Roberts

1933

Ex-Lady

as Helen Bauer

1933

The Working Man

as Jenny Hartland alias Jane Grey

1933

The 42nd Street Special

as Self (uncredited)

1933

Parachute Jumper

as Patricia 'Alabama' Brent

1933

Just Around the Corner

as Ginger

1932

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

as Fay Wilson

1932

Three on a Match

as Ruth Westcott

1932

The Cabin in the Cotton

as Madge Norwood

1932

The Dark Horse

as Kay Russell

1932

The Rich Are Always with Us

as Malbro

1932

So Big!

as Miss Dallas O'Mara

1932

The Man Who Played God

as Grace Blair

1932

Hell's House

as Peggy Gardner

1932

The Menace

as Peggy Lowell

1931

Way Back Home

as Mary Lucy Duffy

1931

Waterloo Bridge

as Janet Cronin

1931

Seed

as Margaret Carter

1931

The Bad Sister

as Laura Madison

Crew

1946

A Stolen Life

as Producer